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Yes, that lefty beast does look "practical..."From what I’ve seen “Leftists” are into far more........ practical magick.
@DildoShwaggins The picking of “sides” instead of taking a position on individual issues/actions/decisions as we are discussing in that other thread is what leads to NPCs IMO.
For example, NZ is a prime example of a MAGA NPC. I know what he is going to say before he says it.
That’s why I don’t understand or accept the notion that there is a need or that it is a good idea to “pick a side”.
For example, NZ is a prime example of a MAGA NPC. I know what he is going to say before he says it.
That’s why I don’t understand or accept the notion that there is a need or that it is a good idea to “pick a side”.
100%
I get wound up and angry when I feel like people in my demographic get blamed for stuff and often (unfortunately) respond in kind. I do try to look at the issue though, rather than the party pushing for it, and hope that is the long term direction for myself.
Good post JD.
I get it. And yeah MAGA has its NPC’s, I was always an anti uniparty guy in the middle. We’ve really witnessed a move away from that as the neocons and neoliberals were replaced by MAGA and democratic socialists. I think the leftists are repugnant enoughrequire most to pick a side. But that’s just me.
It’s called the nu-male smile — also known as Soylent Grin and Cuckface.
Good info and backstory:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nu-male-smile?full=1
More of NZ’s “look” and “vibe” analysis that he favors over reason and critical analysis.
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The Trump-supporting right has a new favourite meme and it's being shared far and wide to troll their political opponents.
Twitter has suspended hundreds of accounts after users on pro-Trump Reddit forum r/The_Donald coordinated efforts to set up 'non-player character' profiles mocking liberals on the social networking site.
The trolling campaign was born out of the characterisation of liberals as automatons incapable of independent thought on areas of Reddit and 4chan.
In 24 hours there were more than 30,000 uses of the term NPC on Twitter, and Facebook pages dedicated to the trend have amassed tens of thousands of followers.
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Image captionSome Trump supporters characterise his opponents and the media as unthinking automatons
So what is an NPC?
It's a video game reference.
Non-player characters (NPCs) are controlled by the game's artificial intelligence rather than the player. As a result, they're limited to certain scripted responses and actions.
In a 2016 post on 4chan, one anonymous user referred to people "who autonomously follow groupthinks and social trends in order to appear convincingly human" as NPCs.
"If you get in a discussion with them it's always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments," the poster wrote.
"It's like in a [video game] when you accidentally talk to somebody twice and they give you the exact lines word for word once more."
In recent months the term has been adopted enthusiastically by right-wing social media users. It's frequently used interchangeably with social justice warrior or SJW as a catch-all term for their political opponents.
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Wojak, aka Feels guy, is a simply-drawn character already used widely online.
The character "is often used as a reaction image to represent feelings such as melancholy, regret or loneliness," according to Know Your Meme.
The modification of Wojak's face to replace his emotive expression with a crudely-drawn, generic blank expression has become one of the most popular visual representations of the meme.
As well as Wojak, images of prominent liberals were also modified.
Colin Kaepernick, the American football player whose refusal to stand during the playing of the national anthem to protest against police violence on African-Americans drew heavy criticism from President Trump, is among them.
Other individuals whose images were doctored include Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who accused subsequently-confirmed Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, an allegation he strongly refuted.
How has it spread?
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Image captionHundreds of Twitter profiles mocking liberals were created
As the term became more widely-used, a group of Reddit users on one of the most vociferously pro-Trump corners of the internet hatched a plan.
Members of subreddit r/The_Donald, which has more than 667,000 subscribers, created scores of Twitter profiles featuring grey NPC faces.
When some of the accounts started tweeting false information regarding the upcoming mid-term elections, Twitter took action to suspend a number of the accounts.
Who cares?
Well Twitter, clearly, since it has suspended profiles set up to spread them. And many conservatives are upset by that action.
Plus what looks like a row over a meme sits in the broader context of ongoing culture wars. Trump supporters complain liberals denigrate them all as fascists or Russian bots. Liberals are angered by their mass characterisation as snowflakes or NPCs.
The Trump-supporting right has proven itself adept at spreading memes online.
Researchers from University College London who analysed a huge database of memes discovered the 4chan message board /pol/ and subreddit r/The_Donald were particularly effective.
"We find that /pol/ substantially influences the meme ecosystem by posting a large number of memes, while r/The_Donald is the most efficient community in pushing memes to both fringe and mainstream web communities," the study's authors wrote.
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The Trump-supporting right has a new favourite meme and it's being shared far and wide to troll their political opponents.
Twitter has suspended hundreds of accounts after users on pro-Trump Reddit forum r/The_Donald coordinated efforts to set up 'non-player character' profiles mocking liberals on the social networking site.
The trolling campaign was born out of the characterisation of liberals as automatons incapable of independent thought on areas of Reddit and 4chan.
In 24 hours there were more than 30,000 uses of the term NPC on Twitter, and Facebook pages dedicated to the trend have amassed tens of thousands of followers.
Image captionSome Trump supporters characterise his opponents and the media as unthinking automatons
So what is an NPC?
It's a video game reference.
Non-player characters (NPCs) are controlled by the game's artificial intelligence rather than the player. As a result, they're limited to certain scripted responses and actions.
In a 2016 post on 4chan, one anonymous user referred to people "who autonomously follow groupthinks and social trends in order to appear convincingly human" as NPCs.
"If you get in a discussion with them it's always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments," the poster wrote.
"It's like in a [video game] when you accidentally talk to somebody twice and they give you the exact lines word for word once more."
In recent months the term has been adopted enthusiastically by right-wing social media users. It's frequently used interchangeably with social justice warrior or SJW as a catch-all term for their political opponents.
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Wojak, aka Feels guy, is a simply-drawn character already used widely online.
The character "is often used as a reaction image to represent feelings such as melancholy, regret or loneliness," according to Know Your Meme.
The modification of Wojak's face to replace his emotive expression with a crudely-drawn, generic blank expression has become one of the most popular visual representations of the meme.
As well as Wojak, images of prominent liberals were also modified.
Colin Kaepernick, the American football player whose refusal to stand during the playing of the national anthem to protest against police violence on African-Americans drew heavy criticism from President Trump, is among them.
Other individuals whose images were doctored include Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who accused subsequently-confirmed Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, an allegation he strongly refuted.
How has it spread?
Image captionHundreds of Twitter profiles mocking liberals were created
As the term became more widely-used, a group of Reddit users on one of the most vociferously pro-Trump corners of the internet hatched a plan.
Members of subreddit r/The_Donald, which has more than 667,000 subscribers, created scores of Twitter profiles featuring grey NPC faces.
When some of the accounts started tweeting false information regarding the upcoming mid-term elections, Twitter took action to suspend a number of the accounts.
Who cares?
Well Twitter, clearly, since it has suspended profiles set up to spread them. And many conservatives are upset by that action.
Plus what looks like a row over a meme sits in the broader context of ongoing culture wars. Trump supporters complain liberals denigrate them all as fascists or Russian bots. Liberals are angered by their mass characterisation as snowflakes or NPCs.
The Trump-supporting right has proven itself adept at spreading memes online.
Researchers from University College London who analysed a huge database of memes discovered the 4chan message board /pol/ and subreddit r/The_Donald were particularly effective.
"We find that /pol/ substantially influences the meme ecosystem by posting a large number of memes, while r/The_Donald is the most efficient community in pushing memes to both fringe and mainstream web communities," the study's authors wrote.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-45888176
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Why has Twitter banned 1500 accounts and what are NPCs?
By Chris BellBBC News
- 17 October 2018
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Image copyrightUNKNOWN
The Trump-supporting right has a new favourite meme and it's being shared far and wide to troll their political opponents.
Twitter has suspended hundreds of accounts after users on pro-Trump Reddit forum r/The_Donald coordinated efforts to set up 'non-player character' profiles mocking liberals on the social networking site.
The trolling campaign was born out of the characterisation of liberals as automatons incapable of independent thought on areas of Reddit and 4chan.
In 24 hours there were more than 30,000 uses of the term NPC on Twitter, and Facebook pages dedicated to the trend have amassed tens of thousands of followers.
Image copyrightUNKNOWN
Image captionSome Trump supporters characterise his opponents and the media as unthinking automatons
So what is an NPC?
It's a video game reference.
Non-player characters (NPCs) are controlled by the game's artificial intelligence rather than the player. As a result, they're limited to certain scripted responses and actions.
In a 2016 post on 4chan, one anonymous user referred to people "who autonomously follow groupthinks and social trends in order to appear convincingly human" as NPCs.
"If you get in a discussion with them it's always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments," the poster wrote.
"It's like in a [video game] when you accidentally talk to somebody twice and they give you the exact lines word for word once more."
In recent months the term has been adopted enthusiastically by right-wing social media users. It's frequently used interchangeably with social justice warrior or SJW as a catch-all term for their political opponents.
You might also like:
Who's the grey guy?
- Listen: Right Click - The new online culture wars
- Trump artwork spotted on White House wall
- HimToo: How Pieter Hanson's mother made him internet famous
Image copyrightANON/4CHAN
Wojak, aka Feels guy, is a simply-drawn character already used widely online.
The character "is often used as a reaction image to represent feelings such as melancholy, regret or loneliness," according to Know Your Meme.
The modification of Wojak's face to replace his emotive expression with a crudely-drawn, generic blank expression has become one of the most popular visual representations of the meme.
As well as Wojak, images of prominent liberals were also modified.
Colin Kaepernick, the American football player whose refusal to stand during the playing of the national anthem to protest against police violence on African-Americans drew heavy criticism from President Trump, is among them.
Other individuals whose images were doctored include Professor Christine Blasey Ford, who accused subsequently-confirmed Supreme Court judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, an allegation he strongly refuted.
How has it spread?
Image copyrightTWITTER
Image captionHundreds of Twitter profiles mocking liberals were created
As the term became more widely-used, a group of Reddit users on one of the most vociferously pro-Trump corners of the internet hatched a plan.
Members of subreddit r/The_Donald, which has more than 667,000 subscribers, created scores of Twitter profiles featuring grey NPC faces.
When some of the accounts started tweeting false information regarding the upcoming mid-term elections, Twitter took action to suspend a number of the accounts.
Who cares?
Well Twitter, clearly, since it has suspended profiles set up to spread them. And many conservatives are upset by that action.
Plus what looks like a row over a meme sits in the broader context of ongoing culture wars. Trump supporters complain liberals denigrate them all as fascists or Russian bots. Liberals are angered by their mass characterisation as snowflakes or NPCs.
The Trump-supporting right has proven itself adept at spreading memes online.
Researchers from University College London who analysed a huge database of memes discovered the 4chan message board /pol/ and subreddit r/The_Donald were particularly effective.
"We find that /pol/ substantially influences the meme ecosystem by posting a large number of memes, while r/The_Donald is the most efficient community in pushing memes to both fringe and mainstream web communities," the study's authors wrote.
I think it’s pretty humorous that usage of the NPC meme has quickly become an autonomous groupthink social trend and the buzzword hackneyed response of the folks with which it apparently originated....we’ve seen little else from NZ since he discovered it.
I appreciate the irony.
I appreciate the irony.
I was just marveling at how shitty right wing memes have become, and this statement scrolls up. Ya'll have autistic 9 year olds making the memes now? Say what you want about the booger eatin' incel community, they used to have some good memes. Ya'll have some autistic meme farm set up outside of Minsk or something. Strange.
And Dildo, you don't talk about memes on these boards. I was memeing these boards when you were still discovering booger eatin'. In 1982 I memed my way into your momma's 52-inch panties with an Atari. Back then we called them "computerized pictures with words." If you want to see some good memes (from both sides of the aisle) one of the ancients named Thor had a 40 page thread of nothing but memes. Look at those.
Why "Dildo" for a name? Have you met Dong yet? I'm watching you, Dildo.
Parody account based on someone who was molested by a conservative well into his thirties.
